Improvement in spring-clasps for braid and ribbon packages



WOLOO TT. Spring-Clasp -101" Braid and Ribbon Packages.

- No. 222,115. r Patented Nov. 25,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HENRY WOLOOTT, OF MORRISANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JABE 0. KING AND STERLING H. WARNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN SPRlNG-CLASPS FOR BRAID AND RIBBON PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222, 115, dated November 25, 1879 application filed October 14, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY Women, of Morrisania, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring-Clasps for Braid and Ribbon Packages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device as applied for use; Fig. 2, a longitudinal central section of the same, and Fig. 3a perspective view of the clasp detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to secure the free end of braid, ribbon, or similar packages 5 and the invention consists in providing a spring-clasp, through which two or more layers or thicknesses of the fabric are passed, and compressed sufficiently to retain the same in place.

In order that others may understand and use my invention, I will first proceed to describe the construction and operation of the same, and subsequently to point out in the claims its novel characteristics.

In the drawings, A represents a roll of ribbon fabric, to which my invention generally applied, and B the spring-clasp. (Shown de' tached inFig. 3.) The spring-clasp is preferably made of metal; but any well-known material suitable for the purpose may be substituted. In the present instance I have shown the same constructed in a single piece, the tongue to being formed by cutting the blank parallel with three of, its edges and slightly depressing the interior portion, as shown in the detached view, Fig. 3, which forms an opening, through which the fabric is passed.

In this form it will be seen that the device may be produced from a strip of material of the desired width without waste, and at a single movement of a corresponding punch and die, all of which will be readily understood by those skilled in the art of sheet-metal working but I do not confine myself 'to this mode of manufacture, as the device may be constructed of separate parts connected by rivetin g, soldering, or other means, if desired.

The device is applied by depressing the spring-tongue a and passing one or more layers of the fabric through the same in addition to its free end, the recoil movement of the tongue acting to close the opening and own press the contained layers together.

Owing to the elasticity of the tongue to this device will adapt itself to fabrics of varying thickness, and therefore is interchangeable in its application to silk, ribbon, tape, or heavy bra-ids.

In uncoiling the fabric the ends of the clasp may be held between the fingers of one hand, and the fabric drawn through the same by grasping its free end with the other hand Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A device for securing the free end of braid 'or ribbon packages, consisting of the clasp B, adapted to embrace two or more layers of the fabric, and provided with a springtongue, a, substantially as described.

2. The clasp B and spring-tongue a, constructed of a single piece of material, substantially as shown.

HENRY YVOLOOT'I. 

